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  • ALERT: Out of band security patch to be released tomorrow, 17 December at 10.00am Pacific time

    Announcement here: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/12/16/advance-notification-for-december-2008-out-of-band-release.aspx The patch resolves the actively exploited vulnerability that has been in the press so much in recent days, and which is the subject of this Security Advisory: http://www...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Wed, Dec 17 2008
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Internet Explorer 7, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8
  • Vista x64 and Internet Explorer

    I received this email today: " I bought a 64 bit HP PC with Vista Home Premium and ie7 installed. When I was at a website to view something today it said I needed an Adobe plugin and directed me to Adobe. But Adobe said it did not have a 64 bit version and to use a 32 bit browser. After a bit of...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Sat, Oct 25 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Your questions answered
  • Internet Explorer Security levels compared... courtesy of Steve Riley

    I've wanted to do this for ages ... never did get around to it ... ;o) Steve has put together a chart listing the default settings for each Internet Explorer security level (IE7 on Vista SP1) - you can find it here: http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2008/09/16/internet-explorer-security-levels...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, Sep 22 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7
  • Problems with SiteMeter crashing Internet Explorer

    I'm sure many of you have heard by now that SiteMeter made some changes to their tracking code, which led to their site counter crashing Internet Explorer 6 and 7 ( and 5.5 ?). SiteMeter updated their code to fix the problem, but a side effect of the fix is, apparently, that the SiteMeter icon does...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Sun, Aug 3 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
  • FIX: msfeedssync.exe crashes (RSS synchronization - IE7 and IE8)

    I have over 400 RSS Feed subscriptions that I keep an eye on, and which need to be checked regularly, sometimes every 15 minutes. A couple of days ago, msfeedssync started crashing every time a synchronization was due. The errors were: Faulting application msfeedssync.exe , version 8.0.6001.17184, time...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Thu, Jul 31 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Technology, Internet Explorer 8
  • Important information about Windows XP SP3 for Internet Explorer users

    You will be unable to remove IE8 Beta or IE7 after installing Windows XP SP3 because Microsoft wants to make sure that you do not encounter a problem commonly known as " DLL Hell ". IE8 Beta 1 users You will NOT be offered Windows XP SP3 unless and until you remove IE8 Beta 1. This is because...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Tue, May 6 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8
  • Problem - unable to change Internet Explorer's home page

    Another cry for help received via email... " You are my last best hope... I am just a regular guy from NY (not the city) with a problem. My homepage in IE7 is locked on a page I dont want. I try to change it in Internet options and it even says the homepage I want but it always goes to this other...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, May 5 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Your questions answered
  • Problems with website certificates - IE7

    Over the past few days I have seen a spike in the number of emails asking for help with website certificates. For example, two correspondents have written: " Thanks for providing the information about problems with certificates of IE7 in your website. I tried to follow your instructions to access...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, May 5 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Your questions answered
  • The April Security Updates have been released by Microsoft

    Details here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-apr.mspx The Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is also available - details here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-024.mspx Note that this month's cumulative update includes the IE Automatic...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Wed, Apr 9 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
  • New Internet Explorer KB articles

    A script may not run as expected in IE when you open an HTML page and the HTML page contains an element that has injected HTML code This issue occurs because Internet Explorer sets the security of an element as "about:blank" if the following conditions are true: • A Web page inserts code into...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Sun, Mar 16 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
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